It's the second Tuesday of the month, otherwise known as Patch Tuesday. These are critical!
It's time to go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and download the latest patches:
· MS04-11 - Windows fixes
· MS04-12 - RPC/DCOM fixes
· MS04-13 - Outlook Express fixes
· MS04-14 - JET fixes
Apparently Windows XP SP 2 already contains these fixes (Windows Update tells me there's nothing to do), so if you're running RC 1 then you probably won't have anything to update. You should still visit Windows Update just in case (and make sure you have Automatic Updates turned on, too!)
With props to Peter Torr for first blogging this: http://blogs.msdn.com/ptorr/archive/2004/04/13/112495.aspx
Here's a link to the April 14th TechNet WebCast Slide Deck as an Adobe PDF file you can grab from my server.
Bob Baker
posted @ Tuesday, April 13, 2004 6:21 PM